Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004963"
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Elastin-based hydrogel as a treatment for critical limb ischemia, an insight into the glyco-host response
Marsico, Grazia (NUI Galway, 2019-10-01)Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is severe impairment of the microcirculation resulting in inflammation, ischaemic pain, non-healing ulcers and gangrene. Over 20% of patients have no option but to undergo a major limb amputation. ... -
An investigation on the use of sensory electrical stimulation as a cueing therapy to ameliorate on-state freezing of gait in people with Parkinson's Disease
Sweeney, Dean (NUI Galway, 2021-05-04)People with Parkinson’s (PwP) currently face a significant challenge in managing on-state Freezing of Gait (FoG). While auditory and visual cueing therapies have been shown to ameliorate on-state FoG, studies often show ... -
Medical devices for the minimally invasive delivery of therapeutic cargo for the prevention of heart failure
Monahan, David (NUI Galway, 2020-11-10)Therapeutic advances are increasing the number of patients that survive cardiac disease such as a myocardial infarction, however, current treatments do not fully stop the development of heart failure. Advanced therapeutic ... -
Methods for defining dynamic online communities and community detection in fast-paced social media streams
Hromic, Hugo (NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)Microblogging social media focuses on fast open real-time communication using short messages between users and their followers. Twitter is currently one of the largest and widely known microblogging OSN in the world, with ... -
Optical variability in Late-M and Early-L dwarfs
Dulaimi, Salam E. Hammeed (NUI Galway, 2021-05-05)Brown dwarfs and low-mass stars together comprise the group of galactic objects known as ultracool dwarfs. A number have been detected as radio sources – in some cases, emitting periodic radio pulses synchronised to the ... -
Suggestion mining from text
Negi, Sapna (NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)With the ever growing availability of opinions on the web, opinion mining has become a popular area of research in the fields of natural language processing and applied machine learning. We argue that opinion summaries ...